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From: meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks)
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Subject: Re: PushButton Pixmap problems
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Date: 22 Oct 90 14:01:51 GMT
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>From: argv@sun.com  (Dan Heller)
>
>Chances are that the pixmap is 1-bit deep and your screen is more than
>1-bit deep (e.g., it's color).  You can't mix pixmaps and windows
>that have differing depths.  You can avoid this problem by using
>XmGetPixmap rather than XReadBitmapFile().  However, the file must
>be in one of a set of predesignated directories.  (I forget what the
>specifics on this are, but it includes /usr/include/X11/bitmaps, I
>believe).
>--
>dan

In version 1.1 the restriction on the directories for XmGetPixmap are
actually loser than this implies.  First, the user can specify an
environment variable XBMLANGPATH which will be used to generate a set of
default paths.  Second, XmGetPixmap will recognize an absolute path on a
Unix system (a path beginning with '/') and use that as the file to open.
Finally, the current working directory is always searched by default if
neither an absolute path or XBMLANGPATH are specified.  If you have any
more questions on this please ask me.

W. Scott Meeks
Open Software Foundation
meeks@osf.org
(617) 621-7229